Sentence examples for deontological commitment from inspiring English sources

Recent empirical research on resource allocation decisions in the UK National Health Service, for example, has illustrated the tensions that can arise when a clinician, driven by a deontological commitment to his or her patient, appeals against a local policy not to fund a treatment that has a high cost per quality-adjusted life year [ 57, 58 ].

Besides, outside of a narrow deontological interpretation of our ethical commitments, the whole notion of responsibility can be viewed not as something that is imputed to us (as it is for accountability), but rather as something that we actively take (Adam and Groves 2011).

In contrast, the deontological approach would concur with the basic moral commitment of non-abandonment of these young individuals devastated by AD.

One reason that absolutist and deontological pacifism appears to require a religious foundation is that the commitment to peace can lead to suffering in the 'real' world of political life.

See also deontological ethics.

Lisa: Commitment.

His commitment?

Demand commitment.

Internal commitment.

Modern ethics, especially since the 18th-century German deontological philosophy of Immanuel Kant, has been deeply divided between a form of teleological ethics (utilitarianism) and deontological theories.

We need institutional commitment.